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<description>Travel adventures in journals and photos from Smedley</description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 21:59:46 +0000</pubDate>
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                    <title>U.S.A.</title>
                    <description>The difficulties of getting into the U.S. are highlighted at Cancun airport when American Airlines who I'd booked my flight with to Miami refused to allow me onto the flight without proof of an outward ticket. I didn't have one. This problem was compounded further when I was told that none of Cancun's three airport terminals had an internet cafe the nearest internet cafe being some 30 minutes a</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/blog-570960.html</link>
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                    <title>Mexico Yucatan</title>
                    <description>Arriving into Chetumul by boat is a much better alternative than by road from Belize.  Its quicker and cheaper you only pay a 7.50B environmental tax rather than the 30B tax approx. by land.  Immediately there is Mexican militarypolice awaiting our arrival and have sniffer dogs at the ready for our bags.  Funnily one of the luggage is a plastic box carrier containing a puppy this being the o</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Mexico/Yucatan/blog-563504.html</link>
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                    <title>Cuba Havana</title>
                    <description>Whilst in Cancun I had assumed that I could purchase a ticket through Cubas national airline Cubana without any problems. Prior investigation revealed that flights are normally fully booked up for the next couple of days.  However their website is a little behind as I discover that the next flight is 8 days away when arriving into Cancun and I dont want to spend 8 days in Cancun Fortunat</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Cuba/Oeste/La-Habana/blog-563283.html</link>
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                    <title>Belize</title>
                    <description>The first introduction to Belize was prior to the border crossing. After exchanging money I realise that it has been a long time since seeing the Queen on a banknote it's good to see old 'Liz again This leads neatly into some brief history of the country.  I had noted that many maps in Guatemala still show Belize as part of Guatemala.  This goes back to 1859 when Britain and Guatemala signed a t</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Belize/blog-560351.html</link>
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                    <title>Guatemala</title>
                    <description>It's an early rise in Copan Honduras for the shuttle to Antigua Guatemala.  The journey is nothing special but is noted for the peppering of the streets by Pepsi and Coca Cola who seem to be in stiff competition for the poor vendors out here. Unfortunately the signs are the only vibrant colours along the dusty barren streets and creates an uneasy relationship between poor indigenous communitie</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Guatemala/blog-547954.html</link>
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                    <title>Honduras</title>
                    <description>The border crossing from Nicaragua to Honduras is relatively straight forward firstly because they are part of the CA4 border agreement with El Salvador and Guatemala and secondly because I am on an international bus which assists you through the controls.  My destination is San Pedro Susa in the north west of Honduras and requires only a brief stop in the capital Tegucigalpa long enough enou</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Honduras/blog-556267.html</link>
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                    <title>Nicaragua</title>
                    <description>My first introduction to Nicaragua is not a pleasant one.  After being stamped out at Costa Rica passport control I walk the 1km along what I assume is no mans land towards the Nicaragua border control.  This seems easy at first  a straight road with other fellow tourists making the same journey or so I thought.  This supposedly pedestrian journey slowly degenerates into vehicular chaos.  I had</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Nicaragua/blog-553365.html</link>
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                    <title>Costa Rica</title>
                    <description>I had heard from fellow travellers and read in my guide book that Costa Rica was one of the most advanced Latin American countries.  There is evidence of this as I make my way along the 16 hour coach journey from Panama City to San Jose the capital of Costa Rica.  However there are aspects which indicates that the country is not as developed as it should be.  For example the border crossing for</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Costa-Rica/blog-551351.html</link>
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                    <title>Panama</title>
                    <description>We set off by boat from the small fishing village of Sapzurro in Columbia for a three day journey along the Caibbean coat of Panama known as the San Blas islands. There are thirteen on the boat two English three Swiss one Austrian two Swedish two Irish two Israeli and one U.S. Together with the Kiwi and French Canadian skippers it makes for a very enjoyable journey with so many nationaliti</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Panama/blog-550601.html</link>
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                    <title>Columbia Part 2</title>
                    <description>My flight arrives into Bogota arrives during the daytime so I'm allowed a birds eye view of the city. First impressions are of a hilly and green agricultural city the climate certainly testifies to this where it rains almost every day and the average year round temperature is around 16 degrees celcius. The view of the city of some 7 million people is much alike any other city which is confirmed</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/blog-543878.html</link>
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                    <title>Columbia Part 1</title>
                    <description>I arrive in Maicao Columbia just beyond the border with Venezuela and catch one of the many available coaches heading towards Santa Marta located on the northern coast of Columbia. The journey begins when a member of the security forces takes a video of all those seated on the bus  I am told this is so that they know who is on the bus should it be hijacked by rebels The only time I encountered</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Colombia/Santa-Marta/blog-541631.html</link>
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                    <title>Venezuela including Boa Vista Brazil</title>
                    <description>After our hitch hiking experience to the border and awaiting the police to finish their lunch late we catch a cab to the bus station and manage to hop on a coach destined for Boa Vista Brazil. Our timing couldnt be worse as we arrive late Friday afternoon and so have to spend an unplanned weekend in Boa Vista and await the Venezuelan consulate to open on Monday morning.  It turns out to be a </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Venezuela/blog-539228.html</link>
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                    <title>Guyana</title>
                    <description>The route from the border to Georgetown consists of almost continuous housing constructed upon wooden stilts to keep the properties from flooding.  The housing is intermittent with mosques and other places of religion which typifies the ethnic mix in this country. This mix originates from the abolition of slavery in 1834 when Africans refused to work on the plantations for wages and many estab</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Guyana/blog-536075.html</link>
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                    <title>Suriname</title>
                    <description>Some of you may have never heard of Suriname and would probably hazard a guess that it lie somewhere in rometest Africa.  So would I before this trip.  Its also a difficult place to gain entry into  the Suriname embassy in Caynne French Guiana appeared all too unwilling to issue us Visas despite being mere tourists.  The 40 Euros paid for the Visa was hardly worth the amount of time spent in </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Suriname/blog-536065.html</link>
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                    <title>French Guiana</title>
                    <description>I was laughed at by the Brazilians in Oiapoque when I advised that I would cross into French Guiana by bridge  it was due for completion in 2007. However it is far from finished in fact it seems far from started So I cross by boat to St Georges from where I catch a shared minibus to Cayenne the capital of French Guiana.  It is 1.5 hours on the road before we arrive at passport control befo</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/French-Guiana/blog-533264.html</link>
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                    <title>Brazil part 2</title>
                    <description>From Tabatinga or Leticia...where ever I am I hop on a 4 day boat destined for Manaus in the heartland of the Brazilian Amazon. Accommodation is basic in readiness I had bought a hammock in Bolivia which is now my home for three nights.  The boat doesnt live up to the scare stories Id read in books and heard from travellers the boat is clean and tidy and the food is very good.  The only </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Brazil/Amazonas/blog-526248.html</link>
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                    <title>Peru</title>
                    <description>We arrive into Cuzco at the ungodly hour of 4.30am after having very little sleep.  We try to get some sleep in a hostel which it is discovered a couple of hours later accommodates a large party of school children so we immediately move into another hostel called Frankenstein  a wonderfully quirky place with a great German host together with his golden retriever iguana and piranhas  Cuzco is </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Peru/blog-524169.html</link>
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                    <title>Bolvia  La Paz region</title>
                    <description>We depart the ascendancy of Uyuni to the relative shallows of La Paz at only 3660m The arrival into La Paz is quite astonishing as you arrive from the flat sparse plains and descend like a corkscrew into the canyon of La Paz overlooked by huge snow capped mountains.  There is also a hubub to the city not found elsewhere in Bolivia and its a little overbearing at times particularly with the cha</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/blog-524150.html</link>
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                    <title>Bolivia Potosi region</title>
                    <description>I decide to catch a coach from Santa Cruz west to Sucre.  The coach is not of the good standard experienced in Brazil and Argentina.  However its so cheap anything in Bolivia is ridiculously cheap e.g. a 10 or 15 minute cab will cost you around 50p so Im willing to accept the consequences....although I have no choice as there doesnt appear to be any alternatives apart from flying which I</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/Potosi-Department/blog-514554.html</link>
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                    <title>Bolivia Santa Cruz region</title>
                    <description>After crossing the border from Brazil I catch a cab to nearby Quijarro and purchase my train ticket to Santa Cruz.  Unfortauntely so eager was I to leave Corumba that I now had 7 hours to burn before the departure of the train.  Quijarro is little more than a collection of shacks but I do find a place that has internet and opt for lunch where most of the locals appear to be eating the food bein</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/South-America/Bolivia/Santa-Cruz-Department/blog-514354.html</link>
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